the encounter

At some point everyone wants their faith to be wrapped in skin. Comfort takes on a new dimension when it comes from someone you love. Hope, mercy, and acceptance take on new meaning when they come from people that care for us. Faith takes on new life when it shown to us through the lives and relationships of others.

The overwhelming announcement of the New Testament was that God had wrapped Himself in skin and was present on the earth! Grace, hope, love, and life was now able to touch and be touched. Jesus’ life was driven by this purpose – to show the heart and life of God wrapped in skin. It consumes Him and ultimately allows Him to lay down His life to prove His love. Those who see are overwhelmed at God wrapped in skin.

Then God does something else overwhelming. He fills His people with Himself and sends them out as God wrapped in skin. His followers become His body. They are driven by His passions, His longings, His grace. They embody the heart of God. They are driven with the same passion of Jesus.

Sunday at encounter, we look at what it means to experience God wrapped in skin, then what it means to become the heart of God wrapped in our own skin for others. Have your view of life and its purpose forever changed! Find new meaning for your relationships! Find new drive for your life!